Burn, Baby, Burn

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Exhilarating.  Amazing.  Incredible and impressive.  These are just a few of the words to describe our time at the CrossFit NC/SC Sectionals held this past weekend in Fort Mill SC.  Clay spent two full days as a judge.  His job was to hold athletes accountable to the established performance standard while counting repetition after repetition after repetition.  Meanwhile, I helped out with check-in as well as a few other odds and ends.  My time ended up being a bit more flexible than Clay's.  I was able to move around more and watch many different athletes compete.  Along the way, I was able to get some great pictures, which of course we'll share with everyone here on the site over the next couple of weeks.  The great part though was that I was also able to cheer on Mendy and Kirk as they took on the experience of a CrossFit competition.  Clay and I couldn't be more proud of these two great people as they took on the challenge.  They were willing to put themselves out there for an extremely intense physical and mental experience.  Many wouldn't even think of it.  They did.  And this says volumes about them.

We hope that all athletes at TCF will be inspired by the example set by Kirk and Mendy.  Whether you're training for a shot at the CrossFit Games yourself, or training for your best 10K time, or training to lose 25 pounds, light your own fire... and then let it burn.

Workout of the Day

"Tabata Something Else"

Perform 8 rounds of 20 seconds of work followed by 10 seconds of rest in the following exercises.  Compete all 8 rounds in each exercise before moving on.

Pull Ups
Push Ups
Sit Ups
Squats

Your score it the total of all repetitions completed, which you should post to comments.

QUOTE: "Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
- Arnold H. Glasow

Comments

[Nichole]

It was amazing to go and support Kirk & Mendy!!! They definietly mad TCF proud! Florida here we come!

[Kirk]

Awesome weekend! Thanks so much for everyone's support. Especially Clay, Kimberly, Matt, Lori, Dov, Nichole, Mike, Katie and Tabitha for being there to push us through.

Put May 28-30, Jacksonville, FL on your calendar. We can all witness Mendy crush the Southeast Regional!

[Matt]

Great work Kirk and Mendy. Lori and I had a great time cheering you on. Looking forward to Jacksonville.

[Tabitha]

What a weekend! Mendy and Kirk have the whole box inspired! Congrats again to Mendy- Can't wait to party in J-ville!!!

[Nichole]

Back to reality!! Got whooped up on & finished at 303, improved from 291, but feeling like there is more to give

[Lori]

Congratulations to Mendy and Kurt...you both did what most of us wouldn't and I'm proud of you for that! Looking forward to Jacksonville and cheering on Mendy while she curses us for talking her into this.

Today's WOD got 341. Don't know what I did last time but it doesn't matter because this time I did all my pullups with NO BANDS. Yay me!